A new microscopy technique allows researchers to directly observe the process of nucleation, which leads to the formation of droplets and bubbles on surfaces. The advance may facilitate the design of ...

Scientists from China’s Peking University have developed a new method for making perovskite films for PV applications in an ambient atmosphere. The technique, described in the paper A prenucleation ...

As a solution evaporates, the dissolved chemicals concentrate until they begin forming a crystal through a process called nucleation. Industries that use small crystals in pharmaceuticals, food and ...

For an oyster growing a shell, a food scientist striving for the perfect ice cream, or a pharmaceutical operator isolating a drug, crystallization is king. Even though the crystal growth process is ...

Spread the loveRecent research has uncovered a critical balance between nucleating and elongating actin filaments essential for the deformation of protein condensates into high aspect ratio structures ...

Crystals form in storm clouds, metals, drug molecules, and even in diseased tissues. Despite their ubiquity, scientists still don’t fully understand what happens when a liquid solution first starts to ...